What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?

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Anonymous wrote:Lighting $100 bills on fire, just for fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Lighting $100 bills on fire, just for fun.

Hilarious!

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Bump. Since people are already Waiting.

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Well, four years after that moment, I was regretting it and transferring into public.

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Anonymous wrote:I still remember:

Pre-K: It was a cold day. I lived in an apartment and the fat envelope was jammed inside the box. At first I thought it was a magazine, but when I pulled it out, I saw the logo of green children holding hands.

St. Albans: I was having a Christmas open house and my son ran out to get the mail for me. I was holding a tray of stuffed mushrooms when I saw the envelope in his hand...

For us, we were with our friends (all of whom, of course, are part of the 1%), and we were throwing piles of money into the fireplace to keep warm. When our butler showed us the envelope confirming our DC's acceptance, we laughed at all the little people who were rejected (as well as those who need handouts of financial aid).

What an idiotic original post. Go soak your head in a bucket.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my gosh..I have been laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes. My coworkers are starting to worry about me! You ladies are really funny!!

All this proves is that you have never been within miles of a private school, much less had a child accepted at one. What is funny? That you couldn't get in if your tried. Pretty darn funny.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my gosh..I have been laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes. My coworkers are starting to worry about me! You ladies are really funny!!

All this proves is that you have never been within miles of a private school, much less had a child accepted at one. What is funny? That you couldn't get in if your tried. Pretty darn funny.

You are truly delusional. My kids are in a "big 3", and yes, this is all hilarious.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my gosh..I have been laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes. My coworkers are starting to worry about me! You ladies are really funny!!

All this proves is that you have never been within miles of a private school, much less had a child accepted at one. What is funny? That you couldn't get in if your tried. Pretty darn funny.

You are truly delusional. My kids are in a "big 3", and yes, this is all hilarious.

Saying it on DCUM does not make it so.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my gosh..I have been laughing so hard, I have tears in my eyes. My coworkers are starting to worry about me! You ladies are really funny!!

All this proves is that you have never been within miles of a private school, much less had a child accepted at one. What is funny? That you couldn't get in if your tried. Pretty darn funny.

You are truly delusional. My kids are in a "big 3", and yes, this is all hilarious.

Saying it on DCUM does not make it so.

Seriously, seek help. You have a problem with detachment from reality. When my first kid got in, i thought "well, i hope this is worth it". If you can't understand why well-adjusted people (with kids in private or public) might find it funny that someone would be this breathless and invested in private school admissions, you are either very stupid or very bizarre.

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The posts are funny but if you've ever had a DC who had a rotten time in public school because of a horrible teacher or the like, you'd be happy hearing an alternative is in fact available and desirous of your DC. Trust me on that.

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Anonymous wrote:The posts are funny but if you've ever had a DC who had a rotten time in public school because of a horrible teacher or the like, you'd be happy hearing an alternative is in fact available and desirous of your DC. Trust me on that.

Of course, and you should. But you probably wouldn't romantically reminisce about the moment or focus on the "elite" aspect.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, after several successful years in DCPS, I'm dreading my rising middle schooler getting accepted to one of the three privates we applied. Does anyone get that superficiality and being one of a select group is actually OFF-PUTTING to many families, down to earth families we would hope relate to our kids? We are simply growing beyond the limitations of public ed., hope our high achieving child may find smaller classes, quality arts programming, regular p.e. (which is a sad failure in DCPS),and differentiated instruction It would be awful to find these things are only an option if swimming among sharks. that's how so many posts sound on the private school line.

Oh stick it in your pie whole. This is such crap. Whose the pretentious one in this scenario? I can't get over the whole 80's era stereotype of Buffy and Brad being rich mean kids and thier parents insufferable snobs. This is not what everyone at these schools are like. Some of the meanest nastiest people I have ever come across in my life was during my high school years at Winston Churchill in good ol Montgomery County. I work my ass off to send my kids to what I think is the best possible school within our reach. I am not resentful of those who have more nor do i look down on those with less. It doesn't even cross my mind. I care about the school, my child's experience, classmates and friends. You come across as extremely insecure grasping at straws in an attempt to rationalize your emotions. This is your insecurity and of those others that feel similarly. It's complete nonsense.

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Time to bump this oldie but goodie back to the top...read the first couple of pages for a few laughs, then I suggest you log off Dcurbanmoms until 2pm Saturday...that's what I did and it cut the anxiety. I also had a frank conversation with my DS about how special he is before any school accepted/rejected him, it helped to set his expectation. My kid is loving his new school and it was all worth it in the end, good luck!

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I can't believe this is 4 years old - one of the funniest threads of all time.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, OP, do you not have a life???

Yeah, kind of arrogant. Do you have any Grey Poupon?